Research Institute
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2020-2022
理工学術院総合研究所 兼任研究員
Details of a Researcher
Updated on 2022/06/30
My research investigates how language is represented and used in the mind. I am interested in questions such as how language users cope with indeterminacies in language and efficiently generate rich linguistic meaning during online comprehension, and how language is processed differently between native speakers and second language learners beyond the differences in the level of general language proficiency. In my research, I use a variety of eye-tracking experimental methods such as eye-tracking in text reading, the visual world eye-tracking paradigm, pupillary dilations (pupillometry), as well as neuropsychological techniques.
理工学術院総合研究所 兼任研究員
RIKEN Brain Science Institute Laboratory for Language Development
Student trainee
Keio University Graduate School of Science and Technology School of Science for Open and Environmental Systems
Keio University Graduate School of Media and Governance Cognition, Sense-Making and Biophysical Skills Major
Keio University Faculty of Environment and Information Studies
2013.03 Keio University Ph.D.
Waseda University Faculty of Science and Engineering Associate Professor (without tenure)
University of California, Los Angeles Department of Linguistics Visiting Scholar
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Linguistics JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research Abroad
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Linguistics Postdoctoral Researcher
The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Language and Information Sciences JSPS Postdoctoral researcher
Keio University Graduate School of Science and Technology JSPS Research fellowship for young scientists (DC1)
RIKEN Brain Science Institute Student Trainee
Linguistics Psycholinguistics Sentence processing Second language acquisition
Eye tracking
Second language acquisition
Sentence processing
Psycholinguistics
L2 Learners Do Not Ignore Verb’s Subcategorization Information in Real-Time Syntactic Processing
Chie Nakamura, Manabu Arai, Yuki Hirose, Suzanne Flynn
Frontiers in Psychology 12 2022.01 [Refereed]
Authorship:Lead author
Integrating prosody in anticipatory language processing: How listeners adapt to unconventional prosodic cues
Nakamura, C, Harris, J, Jun, S-A
Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 2021 [Refereed]
Authorship:Lead author
Difference between L1 and L2 language processing in the use of subcategorization information: Evidence from syntactic priming
Chie Nakamura, Manabu Arai, Yasunari Harada
Gengokenkyu 155 1 - 33 2019 [Refereed]
Authorship:Lead author
Nakamura C, Arai M, Hirose Y, Flynn S
Frontiers in psychology 10 2835 - 2835 2019.01 [Refereed] [International journal]
Authorship:Lead author
It's Harder to Break a Relationship When you Commit Long.
Arai M, Nakamura C
PloS one 11 ( 6 ) e0156482 2016.06 [Refereed] [International journal]
Persistence of Initial Misanalysis With No Referential Ambiguity.
Nakamura C, Arai M
Cognitive science 40 ( 4 ) 909 - 940 2015.07 [Refereed] [International journal]
Predicting the unbeaten path through syntactic priming.
Arai M, Nakamura C, Mazuka R
Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition 41 ( 2 ) 482 - 500 2014.12 [Refereed] [International journal]
Chie Nakamura, Ph.D.
Studies in Language Sciences: Journal of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences 12 43 - 69 2013 [Refereed]
Authorship:Lead author
Immediate use of prosody and context in predicting a syntactic structure.
Nakamura C, Arai M, Mazuka R
Cognition 125 ( 2 ) 317 - 323 2012.08 [Refereed] [International journal]
CELER: A 365-Participant Corpus of Eye Movements in L1 and L2 English Reading
Yevgeni Berzak, Chie Nakamura, Amelia Smith, Emily Weng, Boris Katz, Suzanne Flynn, Roger Levy
Open Mind 1 - 10 2022.04 [Refereed]
Authorship:Corresponding author
Learning to Anticipate Contrast with Prosody: A Visual World Study with L2 Learners
Chie Nakamura, Jesse Harris, Sun-Ah Jun
10th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2020 2020.05
Authorship:Lead author
L2 Adaptation to Unreliable Prosody during Structural Analysis: A Visual World Study
Chie Nakamura, Jesse A. Harris, Sun-Ah Jun, Yuki Hirose
Proceedings of the 43rd Boston University Conference on Language Development 454 - 468 2019 [Refereed]
Authorship:Lead author
Listener's belief influences prosodic adaptation: Anticipatory use of contrastive accent during visual search
Chie Nakamura, Jesse A. Harris, Sun-Ah Jun
Proceedings of International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2019 447 - 451 2019 [Refereed]
Authorship:Lead author
Predicting native language from gaze
Yevgeni Berzak, Chie Nakamura, Suzanne Flynn, Boris Katz
ACL 2017 - 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference (Long Papers) 1 541 - 551 2017 [Refereed]
Prosody helps L1 speakers but confuses L2 learners: Influence of L+H* Pitch accent on referential ambiguity resolution
Chie Nakamura, Manabu Arai, Yuki Hirose, Suzanne Flynn
Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody 2016-January 577 - 581 2016 [Refereed]
The effect of prosodic boundary in understanding English sentences by Japanese EFL learners
Chie Nakamura
11 47 - 58 2012 [Refereed]
Authorship:Lead author
Chie Nakamura, Manabu Arai
Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society(CogSci) 2012 [Refereed]
Adaptation to Unreliable Prosody During Structural Analysis : A Visual World Study (思考と言語)
NAKAMURA Chie, HARRIS Jesse, JUN Sun-Ah
電子情報通信学会技術研究報告 = IEICE technical report : 信学技報 118 ( 163 ) 21 - 26 2018.07
DENG Ying, Nakamura Chie
電子情報通信学会技術研究報告 = IEICE technical report : 信学技報 117 ( 149 ) 87 - 90 2017.07
Word Order Priming in Japanese : The Role of Verb Repetition (Thought and Language)
115 ( 176 ) 61 - 64 2015.08
Predicting the verb in comprehending Japanese (Thought and Language)
115 ( 176 ) 19 - 22 2015.08
Facilitatory and inhibitory effects of thematic fit in ambiguity resolution (Thought and Language)
ARAI Manabu, NAKAMURA Chie, HIROSE Yuki
Technical report of IEICE. Thought and language 114 ( 176 ) 107 - 112 2014.08
Priming of branching structure in comprehension
ARAI Manabu, HIROSE Yuki, NAKAMURA Chie, MIYAMOTO Edson T.
Technical report of IEICE. Thought and language 112 ( 145 ) 59 - 62 2012.07
The 9th WASEDA e-Teaching Award Good Practice Award
2021.03 Waseda University
Presenter Award
2014.05 Japan Second Language Association Processing filler-gap dependencies in L2: Evidence for the use of subcategorization information
Winner: Nakamura, C., Arai, M., Harada, Y., & Hirose, Y.
CUNY Conference Student Presenter Award
2012.03 25th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing The persistence of the initial misanalysis without pragmatic inference: Evidence from Japanese relative clause structure
SFC STUDENT AWARD
2008.03 Keio University
Anticipatory use of acoustic information in L2 processing: Visual world paradigm studies
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research (B))
Project Year :
Adaptation and prosodic processing in L2: Eye-tracking evidence and processing models
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
Project Year :
Simultaneous eye-tracking recording of multiple participants and eye-tracking technology applications in English learning
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A)
Project Year :
Nakamura Chie
Japanese EFL learners' use of verb subcategorization information in processing filler-gap dependency structures: A study using eye-tracking technique in reading
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
Project Year :
NAKAMURA Chie, HARADA Yasunari
日本人英語学習者における統語・韻律情報処理メカニズムの統合的解明
日本学術振興会 科学研究費助成事業 特別研究員奨励費
Project Year :
中村 智栄
Psycholinguistic Study on Listening Comprehension and Automatization of Syntactic Processing by Japanese EFL Learners
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
Project Year :
HARADA Yasunari, TOYA Mitsuyo, MORISHITA Miwa, NAKAMURA Chie, NABEI Lisa
第二言語聴取能力と聴取時におけるプロソディ情報依存度の分布傾向
日本学術振興会 科学研究費助成事業 特別研究員奨励費
Project Year :
中村 智栄
L2 processing of sub-ject-verb agreement (SVA): They hear it but can't process it?
Kiwako, I, Nakamura, C, Kylie, S, Traci, F, Thomas, N, Suzanne, F, Jongmin, J, Bethany, F
Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP 2021)
Presentation date: 2021.09
Learning to anticipate with unconventional prosodic mappings: The L2 advantage
Nakamura, C, Harris, J. A, Jun, S. A
45th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development
Presentation date: 2020.11
Learning to anticipate contrast with prosody: A visual world study with L2 learners
Chie Nakamura, Jesse A. Harris, Sun-Ah Jun
10th International Conference on Speech Prosody
Presentation date: 2020.05
Listener's belief influences prosodic adaptation: Anticipatory use of contrastive accent during visual search
Chie Nakamura, Jesse A. Harris, Sun-Ah Jun
International Congress of Phonetic Sciences ICPhS 2019
Presentation date: 2019.08
Prosody-meaning mismatches in PP ambiguity: Incremental processing with pupillometry
Harris, J. A, Nakamura, C, Bethany Sturman, Jun, S. A
32nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing
Presentation date: 2019.03
Listeners' belief about the speaker and adaptation to the deviant use of prosody
Nakamura, C, Harris, J. A, Jun, S. A
32nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing
Presentation date: 2019.03
Adaptation to speaker-specific prosody during visual search
Chie Nakamura, Jesse A. Harris, Sun-Ah Jun
California Meeting on Psycholinguistics 2018
Presentation date: 2018.12
L2 adaptation to unreliable prosody during structural analysis: A visual world study
Nakamura, C, Harris, A. J, Jun, S. A, Hirose, Y
43rd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development
Presentation date: 2018.11
Predictive processing and reliability in the influence of prosody in L2 structural analysis
Nakamura, C, Harris, A. J, Jun, S.A, Hirose, Y
31st Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference
Presentation date: 2018.03
Cue reliability affects anticipatory use of prosody in processing globally ambiguous sentences
Nakamura, C, Harris, A. J, Jun, S. A
31st Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference
Presentation date: 2018.03
Anticipatory effects and the reliability of prosody in processing globally ambiguous structures
Nakamura, C, Harris, A. J, Jun, S.A
California Meeting on Psycholinguistics
Presentation date: 2017.12
Predicting native language from gaze
Berzak, Y. Nakamura, C. Flynn, S, Katz, B
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Presentation date: 2017.07
The use of prosody by children, adults, and learners: Similarities and differences
Nakamura, C [Invited]
Japan Society for Language Sciences 19th Annual International Conference
Presentation date: 2017.07
Priming from a previously predicted but unseen verb
Arai, M, Nakamura, C, Hirose, Y
22nd Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing
Presentation date: 2016.09
Semantic ambiguity makes it difficult for L2 learners to understand English relative clause sentences
Nakamura, C, Flynn, S
10th International Conference on Multilingualism and Third Language Acquisition
Presentation date: 2016.09
It needs to be specific: Contribution of semantic information in L2 learners' processing of English relative clause structures
Nakamura, C, Flynn, S
35th Second Language Research Forum
Presentation date: 2016.09
Language switching costs in picture naming: Evidence from highly proficient Chinese learners of Japanese
Ying, D, Nakamura, C
9th International Workshop on Language Production
Presentation date: 2016.07
Prosody helpes L1 speakers but confuses L2 learners: Influence of L+H* pitch accent on referential ambiguity resolution
Nakamura, C, Arai, M, Hirose, Y, Flynn, S
Speech Prosody 2016
Presentation date: 2016.06
Restricted fine-grained parsing in second language: Influence of lexically specific information in L2 processing
Nakamura, C, Arai, M, Hirose, Y, Flynn, S
International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children
Presentation date: 2016.04
Verb repetition boosts priming of voice but not word order: Evidence from transitive sentence production in Japanese.
Deng, Y, Nakamura, C
21st Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing
Presentation date: 2015.09
Grain problem in L2 sentence processing: Evidence for L2 learner's use of lexically specific information
Nakamura, C, Arai, M, Hirose, Y, Harada, Y
21st Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing
Presentation date: 2015.09
Prosody can mislead L2 learners down "A Garden Path": Evidence from a visual-world eye-tracking study
Nakamura, C, Arai, M, Hirose, Y, Flynn, S
40th Boston University Conference on Language Development
Presentation date: 2015.05
What is helpful for native speakers can be misleading for L2 learners: Evidence for misinterpretation of contrastive prosody
Nakamura, C, Arai, M, Hirose, Y
28th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing
Presentation date: 2015.03
Getting ready for a surprise
Arai, M, Hirose, Y, Nakamura, C
20th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing
Presentation date: 2014.09
Thematic fit does not always help ambiguity resolution
Arai, M, Nakamura, C, Hirose, Y
20th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing
Presentation date: 2014.09
Processing filler-gap dependencies in L2: Evidence for the use of subcategorization information
Nakamura, C, Arai, M, Harada, Y, Hirose, Y
14th Annual Conference of the Japan Second Language Association
Presentation date: 2014.05
Processing filler-gap dependencies in L2: Evidence for the use of subcategorization information
Nakamura, C, Arai, M, Harada, Y, Hirose, Y
27th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing
Presentation date: 2014.03
The influence of structural ambiguity on an antilocality effect in Japanese
Arai, M, Miyamoto, E. T, Hirose, Y, Nakamura, C
19th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing
Presentation date: 2013.09
Priming of an initially adopted structure in L2 processing
Nakamura, C, Arai, M, Harada, Y
19th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing
Presentation date: 2013.09
Syntactic priming of the initial analysis in L2 comprehension: Evidence from a self-paced reading study with Japanese EFL learners
Nakamura, C, Arai, M, Harada, Y
15th Annual International Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences
Presentation date: 2013.06
Surprising Surprisal: No free lunch during sentence comprehension
Arai, M, Miyamoto, E. T, Nakamura, C, Hirose, Y
14th Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics
Presentation date: 2013.03
Priming the internal structure of noun-phrases in comprehension
Arai, M, Hirose, Y, Nakamura, C, Miyamoto, E. T
18th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing
Presentation date: 2012.09
What makes readers to commit to (incorrect) pre-head attachment in Japanese?
Nakamura, C, Arai, M
18th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing
Presentation date: 2012.09
Preservation of the initial analysis in absence of pragmatic inference with Japanese relative clause sentences
Nakamura, C, Arai, M
34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
Presentation date: 2012.08
Effects of visual and discourse contexts and prosody on referential resolution
Ito, K, Nakamura, C, Mazuka, R
25th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing
Presentation date: 2012.03
The persistence of the initial misanalysis without pragmatic inference: Evidence from Japanese relative clause structure
Nakamura, C, Arai, M
25th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing
Presentation date: 2012.03
Interaction between context-driven salience and prosody during referential resolution
Ito, K, Nakamura, C, Mazuka, R
Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody 2
Presentation date: 2011.09
Predicting a dispreferred structural alternative as a result of syntactic priming in comprehension
Arai, M, Nakamura, C, Mazuka, R
17th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing
Presentation date: 2011.09
Prediction of the correct structural analysis driven by contextually appropriate prosodic information
Nakamura, C, Arai, M, Mazuka, R
17th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing
Presentation date: 2011.09
An anticipatory effect of syntactic priming in processing garden-path sentences
Arai, M, Nakamura, C, Mazuka, R
24th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing
Presentation date: 2011.03
Listeners can use prosodic cues to avoid being garden-pathed
Nakamura, C, Arai, M, Mazuka, R
24th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing
Presentation date: 2011.03
How Japanese-English learners pay attention to prosodic cues to spoken English sentences
Nakamura, C, Harada, Y, Ishizaki, S
ELSJ international spring forum 2010
Presentation date: 2010.04
数理モデルによるアイトラッキング実験データのシミュレーション
2020 Jesse Harris, Sun-Ah Jun, Suzanne Flynn, 広瀬友紀, 新井学
数理モデルを用いた第二言語処理におけるプロソディー情報理解の検証
2020 Jesse Harris, Sun-Ah Jun, Suzanne Flynn, 広瀬友紀, 新井学
2019 Jesse Harris, Sun-Ah Jun